Food, cosmetic products and medical devices

Frequently required services

• Foodstuffs

  Foodstuffs

  Strategic advice

  • Examination of your product from the point of view of differentiation from other product categories
  • Selection of the correct product category, taking into account various criteria: Composition, positioning/purpose, planned promotion, sales channels, time to market, including production and financial possibilities.
  • Selection of the appropriate food groups
  • Strategic consequences of individual processes for market access planning (e.g. novel food)
  • Choice of sales channels and their requirements
  • Market access planning
  • Training in the area of food law

   

  Operational support

  • • Determining legally compliant product requirements
    • Creating and checking legally compliant product labelling
    • Preparation of assessments for products with non-regulated substances (e.g. food safety, differentiation from medicinal products, novel food, botanicals)
    • Planning of market access with the necessary steps
    • Project management for Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) authorisation and notification procedures for novel products, health claims, food for special medical purposes (FSMP)
    • Evaluation of clinical studies for a health claim application
    • Checking advertising for legal conformity
    • Registering the company with the cantonal enforcement authorities
    • Establishment and implementation of a self-monitoring concept
• Cosmetic products

  Cosmetic products

  Strategic advice

  • Examination of your product from the point of view of differentiation from other product categories
  • Selection of the correct product category (medicinal products and medical devices or commodities) taking into account various criteria: Composition, positioning/purpose, planned advertising, sales channels, time to market, including production and financial possibilities.

  • Differentiation from other commodities.

     

   

  Operational support

  • Planning of the market access with the necessary steps
  • Checking the composition and regulatory compatibility with cosmetic products law
  • Checking or creating legally compliant product labelling
  • Preparation of a safety report (in collaboration with an external partner) and PIF (product information file)
  • Checking advertisements about cosmetic products for legal conformity
  • Establishing and implementing a self-monitoring concept

     

• Medical Devices

  Medical Devices

  In the field of market access procedures, we would be happy to advise you on the following questions:

  Strategic advice

  • Examination of your product from the point of view of differentiation from other product categories
  • Selection of the correct product category, taking into account various criteria: Composition, positioning/purpose, planned promotion, sales channels, time to market, procedural requirements (economic operators), including production and financial possibilities.
  • Classification of medical devices and highlighting of strategic consequences of classification
  • Strategic advice on the choice of the Swiss authorised representative (CH-REP)

     

   

  Operational support

  • Examination of your product from the point of view of differentiation from other product categories
  • Selection of the correct product category, taking into account various criteria: Composition, positioning/purpose, planned promotion, sales channels, time to market, procedural requirements (economic operators), including production and financial possibilities.
  • Classification of medical devices and highlighting of strategic consequences of classification
  • Strategic advice on the choice of the Swiss authorised representative (CH-REP)